When Joey Logano climbs into the No. 20 Toyota for the 51st running of the Great American Race on Feb. 15, he will make history as the youngest driver to start a Daytona 500—NASCAR’s biggest, richest and most prestigious race.
If Logano, who will be 18 years, 8 months and 22 days old on the date of this year’s Daytona 500, can get the No. 20 and his Joe Gibbs Racing team into Victory Lane in his first Daytona 500 start, he will surpass Jeff Gordon as the youngest driver to win the event. Gordon won his first Daytona 500 in 1997 at the age of 25.
“I went down there the last five or six years and I’ve had to watch from the sidelines and to be involved in it [this] year is really exciting,” Logano said. “There’s just so much history there and to be able to be on the same track that so many legends have won at is really an honor. It’s Daytona and that’s the Daytona 500. Even though I’ve never run in the race, I know how much of a big deal it is.”
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